magnonnaise

Noun

mayonnaise (countable and uncountable, plural mayonnaises)

1. A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks, vinegar or lemon juice, and seasoning, used on salads, with French fries, in sandwiches, etc.
   • There are 250 foods, including mayonnaise, cheese and cocoa, that don't list ingredients at all.1985 May, Boys' Life, volume 75, number 5, page 20
2. Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient.
   • We served a lobster mayonnaise as a starter.
3. Any cream, for example for moisturizing the face or conditioning the hair, for which the base is egg yolks and oil.
   • hair mayonnaise
4. (Australia, informal) Exaggeration.
   • Rancey and our coach, Damien Hardwick, still both joke that "Dimma" tried to off-load him for a sixpack of beers and a bucket of chips in his first few years, but I think they both put some mayonnaise on the story these days.2017 March 2, Trent Cotchin, “Alex Rance is one of the most competitive humans that has walked the planet, writes Trent Cotchin”, in Herald Sun, Melbourne, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2024

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